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Format: 1 online resource (323 pages)

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 9783031542312

Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research Series

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: In Search of Intermediating Capacities: The Interplay of Civic Engagement and Institutionalised Politics -- 1 The Problem -- 1.1 Civic Engagement: Friend or Foe? -- 1.2 Visiting the Territory of Intermediation -- 1.3 A History of Instability and Renegotiation -- 1.4 The Ambiguity of Democracy -- 1.5 Two Dimensions of Governance -- 2 The Plurality of Intermediation: Three Strands of Theory About the Interplay of Civic Engagement and Institutionalised Politics -- 2.1 Intermediation Between Citizens and Political Representatives: Theories of Democracy -- 2.2 More Than a Third Sector of Organisations: Intermediation in the Framework of the Civil Society Debate -- 2.3 Intermediation Through Interactive Governance: Rethinking the Administrative Parts of Institutionalised Politics -- 3 Intermediation Needs Democratic Experimentalism -- References -- Part I: Framing the Interplay -- Chapter 2: Institutional Transformations of the Interplay of Civic Engagement and Institutional Politics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Institutionalization of the Interplay Between Civic Engagement and Institutional Politics: A Theoretical Framework -- 3 Critical Junctures: Contemporary Social and Institutional Transformations and Reconfigurations -- 3.1 From Individualization to the Emergence of a "Society of Singularities" -- 3.2 The "Trials of Life" and Collective Mobilization -- 3.3 Digitalization and New Forms of Collective Action -- 3.4 The Limits of the Social Media Channel -- 4 Conclusion: Weakening of Political Integration Through the Organizational Channel? -- References -- Chapter 3: Democratic Participation and Climate Politics: Notes on the Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat in France -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Civic Councils in the Field of Democratic Innovations. , 3 Idea and Implementation -- 4 The Convention Citoyenne Pour le Climat (CCC): A French Example of an Ambitious Interplay Between Civic Engagement and Institutionalised Politics -- 4.1 From Social Unrest to an Institutionalised Democratic Innovation -- 4.2 The Procedural Design of the Convention -- 4.3 The Democratic Qualities of the Process -- 4.3.1 Level of Inclusion -- 4.3.2 Modes of Participation -- 4.3.3 Mode of Decision-Making -- 4.3.4 Transparency -- 4.4 Mandate and Influence of the CCC -- 4.5 Public Perception of the CCC -- 4.6 Discussion on the CCC and Beyond -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Intermediation: Lost and Found -- Chapter 4: From a Good Beginning Towards a Dead End -- 1 Introduction: Overview of the Dynamics of the Development of State and Civil Society Capture in Hungary 1989-2023 -- 2 Historical Background and Institutional Overview of Hungarian Civil Society -- 3 The Rise of Fidesz to a Hegemonic Power -- 3.1 Impacts of the First Fidesz Government 1998-2002 -- 3.2 Civil Society Under Pressure Since 2010: State Capture and Law as Obstructions Instrument Against Civil Society -- 3.2.1 Legislative and Public Defamation of Critical Civil Society -- 3.2.2 Laws on NGOs: Civil Act 2011 -- 3.2.3 Money Laundering Act -- 3.2.4 Immigration Tax -- 3.2.5 "Stop Soros" Package -- 3.2.6 Public Treatment of NGOs -- 4 Civic and Political Movements Mobilizing against the "Orbán-Regime" in Hungary (2010-2023) -- 4.1 Human Rights Initiatives -- 4.2 Student Movement -- 4.3 Political Mobilization of the Environmental Movement -- 4.4 Budapest as a Counter-Model -- 4.5 Regime-Critical Political Movements and Their Networks -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Literature -- Open Source -- Chapter 5: Struggling with Pillarised Clientelism: Civil Society and Institutional Politics in Poland -- 1 Introduction. , 2 Between Clientelism and Europeanisation: Taking Stock of Civic Engagement Diversity -- 3 Three Decades of Changing Relations -- 4 The Turning Point -- 5 Civic Engagement Filling the Gaps in Times of Crises -- 6 The Cleavages and Alliances -- 7 The Emergence of a Hybrid Regime -- 8 Pillarisation of Civic Engagement in the Context of Political Struggles -- 9 Conclusions -- References -- Part III: Policy Arenas and Governance: Welfare, Health, Migration -- Chapter 6: Mind the Gap Before the Bridge: On the Gaps and Barriers in Cross-Sector Co-production with Vulnerable Citizens -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Cross-Sector Co-production as Democratic Repair -- 3 Cross-Sector Co-production in Denmark -- 4 Methods and Design -- 5 Analysis -- 6 Constructing the Bridge -- 7 The Information Gap in the Field of Refugee Services -- 8 Why the Gap? -- 9 The Information Gap in the Field of Elderly Services -- 10 The Socio-material Resource Barrier Across Fields -- 11 Cultural and Cognitive Barriers Across Fields -- 12 Concluding Discussion -- References -- Chapter 7: Health as a Public Concern: Revitalizing Civic Engagement in the German Health System Through Civic-Minded Movements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Transformation of Welfare Governance and Its Intermediary Potential -- 3 Stakeholder Involvement in the German Health System: From Classic Corporatism to Collaborative Governance -- 4 Looking Beyond the Corporatist System: Health as a Public Concern -- 4.1 Health Kiosks: New Forms of Intermediation Between Medical and Social Realms -- 4.2 Hospital Care: Strikes as a Form of Conflictive Cooperation -- 4.3 Health Data Cooperatives: Reinforcing Trust in the Age of Digitalized Healthcare -- 5 Towards Civic-Minded Health Movements and New Kinds of Interplay -- References. , Chapter 8: Enacting Voice Amongst Young Immigrants in a Precarious Legal Situation: Everyday Practices of Intermediation in a State-Funded Civic Youth Project -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Civic-Action Framework -- 3 Methodology -- 4 Findings -- 4.1 The Leisure Style: Having Fun in Order to Forget the Stress -- 4.2 The Advocacy Style: In the Interest of Young Refugees -- 4.3 Club-Style Volunteering: 'Doing Good' as a Road to Integration -- 4.4 Personalized Politics: Radical Change and Personal Development -- 4.5 Scene-Switching, Tension, Conflict and Compromise -- 4.5.1 Tension 1: Advocacy Style Versus Leisure Style -- 4.5.2 Tension 2: Advocacy/Club-Style Volunteering and the Personalized Politics Style -- 5 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Intermediation: Tools and Challenges -- Chapter 9: Giving Voice to Ordinary Citizens: Public Opinion Research as Intermediary Between People and Politics -- 1 Public Opinion Research as Intermediary? -- 2 Public Opinion Polls and Electoral Democracy -- 2.1 Great Expectations -- 2.2 Polling with Government -- 2.3 Polling in Virtuous and Vicious Circles -- 3 Interactive Research and Deliberative Democracy -- 3.1 From Focus Groups to Mini-Publics -- 3.2 Deliberative Polls -- 4 A Risky Road: The EU Consulting Ordinary Citizens -- 4.1 The Eurobarometer -- 4.2 Interaction with Citizens for the Future of Europe -- 5 Outlook -- References -- Chapter 10: Disorganised Collective Citizens' Interest, Social Transformations and Technopopulism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Technopopulism and Crisis of Representative Democracies -- 3 The Historical Transformations and the Neoliberal Doctrine: Conditions for Technopopulism -- 4 The Case of Eastern Europe and the EU Integration Process -- 5 Technopopulism: The Cases of France and the Czech Republic -- 6 Conclusion -- References. , Chapter 11: Intermediary Capacities of Elites in Swedish Civil Society -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Method and Data -- 3 A Swedish System of Intermediation -- 4 Elite Socialisation into the Sector -- 5 Taking an Internal Route -- 6 An Emerging Route -- 7 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 12: Nonprofits' Organizational Practices and Their Contributions to Communities and Democracy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theory -- 2.1 Organizational Practices -- 2.2 Nonprofits' Contributions to Society -- 2.3 Organizational Practices Shaping Societal Roles -- 3 Data and Method -- 3.1 Sample -- 3.2 Measures and Analysis -- 4 Findings -- 5 Discussion -- References -- Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783031542305

Language: English